DIG IT: My First Timelapse

Okay so it’s short and sweet, certainly no Sean Stiegemeier, and yes there are things I will do different next time – but hey – my first attempt at timelapse sequence was fun and, I’d say, successful (enough to post it here anyways).

The process for these 11 seconds of ‘wow, neat’ factor took 285 frames from my still camera using an intervalometer to fire a frame once every 15 seconds over the course of about an hour. I then batch processed the lot in Aperture and cropped them down from their native 21 megapixels to 1920×1080 or full HD resolution. Some contrast adjustments, vignette, and the like to give it some pop (as these were stills, I knew how to do this quite easily, whereas I still need some work with color timing video footage). Import the lot into Final Cut, drop it into a timeline with some music, output to a Quicktime movie and voila. I’d say I’m hooked… expect to see more from me in the future.